Hi Charles,

Remember a few years back when we discussed macros/tools to clean up manual
formatting in Woody's Lounge?

IMO the "Styles and formatting pane" might be our dreams come true... if it
would work as advertised.

One goal we wanted to achieve is to see which manual formatting has been
applied.
The list in the "styles and formatting" pane isn't always up to date: It
often shows some formatting that allegedly is used X times, but really
isn't used in the document any more.

The other goal was a quick method to get rid of manual formatting
selectively.
The pane has falls short of achieving this, too:

For one, if you try to "select all X instances" of some style or formatting
(to then apply a style or remove the manual formatting), the computer often
shows the egg timer for several minutes.
Find/replace for the exact same formatting in the same doc takes a few
seconds at most.

Even worse, "select all X instances" sometimes does *not* select all X
instances.
Instead, it can completely botch up and select a weird assortment of
ranges.
If you don't notice this quickly, the buggy behaviour can cost you hours of
work.
"Find/replace" is always reliable.

The idea and the interface are great, but the implementation stinks   :-(
In practice, I still mostly use "Find/replace".

Regards,
Klaus